Maybe if I had said instead that I need to make sacrifices rather than that
I am prepared to suffer abuse, it amounts to the same thing but is a more
socially acceptable use of language.
To put it another way, I have to be prepared to put myself in a position of
psycological disadvantage in order to get people to realise what that
pyscological disadvantage consists of and what it is like to live with it in
a world where the average mindset is very different to mine. If we continue
to be invisible then we will remain as the subjects of scientific curiosity
and patronising pseudo benignity.
It is the equivalent of being a wheelchair user who has to enter through the
back door and up a goods lift to get to a meeting they know they need to be
at, in order to show that no amount of intentional or unintentional
exclusion will keep them out.
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Michael Peckitt
> Sent: 01 September 2002 14:09
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> Subject: Re: Conference next week
>
>
> To all
>
> I have to disagree. It is inexcusable that anyone should experience any
> sort of abuse. It's plain wrong. I stopped participating in the
> disability
> movement and stopped working in the discipline of disability
> studies as much
> because of abuse from disabled people themselves. I also have
> less faith in
> the ability to make omnne group to the sense of another's
> argument. Or that;
>
> The object is not to defeat an adversary in open combat, but to ultimatly
> win over ones adversary by convincing them to adopt the ideas one is
> fighting for so they are no longer and adversary.
>
> Is an achieveable goal. It should be, but this is not just about reasoned
> debate, for the players involved have an interest not just in the
> outcome of
> the debate for the debate's sake, but aut political interests, say for
> instance how much power the organization they belong will have should they
> have to concede a point.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
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